Understanding Sexual Violence and Stalking

Assault and Related Crimes

• Assault: Involves verbal or non-verbal threats.
• Aggravated Assault: Committed with a deadly weapon without intent to kill or with intent to commit a felony.
• Battery: Refers to actual, intentional touching or striking of the victim against their will or causing bodily harm.
• Aggravated Battery: Causes great bodily harm, permanent disability, or disfigurement, often using a deadly weapon.
• Felony Battery: Involves significant injuries like great bodily harm, permanent disability, or disfigurement against the victim's will.
• Domestic Battery: Battery against a family or household member, including strangulation.

Domestic Violence and Related Definitions

• Domestic Violence: Includes various assaults, sexual offenses, and stalking by one family member against another causing physical injury or death.
• Family or Household Member: Defined as spouses, former spouses, relatives by blood/marriage, or individuals living as family.
• Child Domestic Battery: Violence by a child against a family member in the home.
• Dating Violence: Involves violence in a romantic or intimate relationship.
• Repeat Violence: Requires two incidents of violence/stalking within six months directed at the victim or their family.

Sexual and Physical Violence

• Sexual Violence: Involves any incident of sexual battery or lewd acts committed against someone under 16.
• Stalking: Characterized by repeated, unwanted contact or harassment toward the victim.
• Malicious Intent: Act committed wrongfully and intentionally, causing potential harm to others.
• Credible Threat: Any threat that instills reasonable fear for safety.

Child Abuse and Neglect

• Child Abuse: Involves knowingly inflicting physical or mental injury on a child aged under 18.
• Aggravated Child Abuse: Includes battery toward a child, willful torture, or causing great bodily harm.
• Child Neglect: Failure of a caregiver to provide essential needs for a child.
• Exploitation of Elderly or Disabled Adults: Knowingly using someone’s assets for personal gain or failing to provide necessary care.

Custody Interference and Kidnapping

• Interference with Custody: Taking a minor from their lawful custodian with malicious intent.
• Luring or Enticing a Child: Involves drawing a child under 12 into a location unlawfully.
• Kidnapping: Forcibly confining or abducting another without lawful authority, often for ransom.

Missing Persons

• Endangered Person: A missing child under 18 or an adult believed to be in danger or involved in criminal activity.
• Missing Child: A child under 18 whose whereabouts are unknown and reported missing.
• Missing Adult: An adult aged 18 or older whose whereabouts are unknown and reported missing.

Homicide and Related Terms

• Homicide: The act of one human killing another, encompassing various types (murder, manslaughter).
• Cause of Death: The specific injury or disease that results in death.
• Manner of Death: How the injury or disease leads to death, including circumstances surrounding it.
• Rigor Mortis and Lividity: Rigor mortis refers to muscle stiffening after death; lividity is the discoloration from blood settling.
• Algor Mortis: Refers to the cooling of a body post-death.

Robbery and Related Crimes

• Robbery: The act of taking property through force or intimidation.
• Home-invasion Robbery: Occurs when the suspect enters a home while occupants are present and aware.
• Carjacking: Taking a vehicle from a victim through intimidation or force.

Investigation Procedures

• Canvass: An information-gathering process at a crime scene to gather potential witness accounts or details surrounding the incident.

This quiz explores the definitions and key concepts related to sexual violence, stalking, and malicious behavior. It covers the legal implications and victim's rights regarding incidents of sexual battery and harassment. Test your knowledge on these important social issues.